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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How can we return to techno-optimism?English
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    2 months ago

    Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

    Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”

    Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

    I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    2 months ago

    Heh, foresaw you getting hung up on “liberation”

    It’s not complicated nor is it this profound thing: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16007006

    It’s commisseration, really Can you just let some traumatized autisitic transfems (and others) have that?

    No? Yes? Doesnt matter. Thats the point of the video, it’s not about you. Thats also part of the point of parody’ing incels (which as an aside: the concept of invcel was originally coined by a woman and was meant to be a supportive, all-gender, friendly place – before the right co-opted it.

    No, i’m posting this for the next tranzqueer who comes along, who might [like I had] be unaware of these things and tend to gravitate to the Narrative of the Johns without reminders that there is so, so much more nuance, and meaning to be found in the world, beyond the limits of what is scripted, shot, edited, produced and published for the target audience composed of Stanleys & Johns.

    So thanks for reading. I did not expect you to watch that whole video, but since you did, I hope your life will be enriched by the appreciation that creations, be they AAA titles or shitty memes, dont need to make sense to your perspective in order for them to have great value, both to marginalized audiences who benefit from seeing themselves humanized, but also to the rest, because in order to dehumanize someone else you first demhumanize a tiny part of yourself – and art can heal that, too.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoWorld News@lemmy.world•'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureateEnglish
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    3 months ago

    As someone who’s not a doomer, with her Rage fueled Hope, and Hope fueled Rage:

    Deep down, I know you cant believe this status quo can stand for much longer than it has.

    If someone earns a dollar they didnt work for, someone else worked for a dollar they didnt earn.

    As someone who’s transitioned out of economic privilege, I know how hollow all that iPicketFence really is.

    You cant really expect others to aspire to that plastic existence.

    You can’t really believe that endless colonization, that your comfort depending on someone of lower economic class existing, wont eventually result in fascism.

    So that’s why the “Scratch a lib and a fash bleeds” phrase rings true. Thank you for airing out all your laundry for all to screencap, demonstrating just how that when we discuss what neoliberalism pushes, we can see it for thr prefiguration of a right wing authoritarian regime waiting to cannibalize it’s own nation.

    Austerity Kills. Food Not Bombs. Housing is a human right. No Human is Illegal. Threats to the bodily autonomy of any Non-Man or Non-White are a threat for all. These are not utopia or naive, these are the bare basic conditions of humanity that have been stolen from the people, and causes for which local organizing today can tangibly improve lives being lived now AND prefigure a society that we can maybe even, someday have good reason to be proud of. Screw the fear, screw the dread, go build some connections with folks who are also putting in the work for these things, it reinvigorates the soul. (And sure helps reduce time spent with your pocket amulet)